{"id":492,"date":"2013-04-18T20:41:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2013-04-18T20:43:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:43:53","slug":"relearn-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Relearn, Repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today at work, I had a snack around 11:30 am… Pretzel Chips, buffalo flavored (I worked-out before work so don’t judge, and hey, I was hungry). \u00a0When Dex beeped at 12:30 pm, displaying it’s non-subtle demand for blood (that blood drop graphic is intense), I saw that Dex showed a bg of 87 and an angle down arrow (Uht-oh), I quickly checked my blood on the meter. \u00a0This is what I saw:<\/p>\n

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What the heck? \u00a0My right hand “looked” clean. \u00a0I re-checked, but washed a fingertip on my left hand. \u00a0Note the time:<\/p>\n

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So, my lesson of the day is this: There is a reason you’re supposed to clean off your fingertip before a blood test. \u00a0Also, Buffalo Pretzel Chips may look orangey BUT even if you can’t see it, there may some buffalo goodness sticking to you. \u00a0That sounds creepy. \u00a0Sorry. \u00a0You get the point. \u00a0Almost 34 years as a T1D. \u00a0Relearned hand-washing today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today at work, I had a snack around 11:30 am… Pretzel Chips, buffalo flavored (I worked-out before work so don’t judge, and hey, I was hungry). \u00a0When Dex beeped at 12:30 pm, displaying it’s non-subtle demand for blood (that blood … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tD0n-7W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}